New York Historic photos, documents, and people

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Late at night. Sewing tapes on gloves. The boy helps. Family of five sleep in room where the work is done. Location: New York, New York (State)

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Background for Hightstown project photographs. Seventh Avenue and West 28th Street, New York. Garment workers leave the factories for noon hour

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Buffalo, New York. Flower girls strewing rose petals in the procession at Easter high mass at the Corpus Christi Church in the Polish community

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New York, New York. Dr. and Mrs. Winn or Wynn, Janet and Marie, a Czech-American family, playing Chinese checkers while their grandmother knits

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One of the means of exploitation through home-work. The worker pays $1.25 deposit on one dozen plates. Location: New York, New York (State)

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Photograph of President Franklin D. Roosevelt with his dog Fala at a picnic on "Sunset Hill" near Pine Plains, NY. Fala is four months old.

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almost 8 years

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A lone newsie selling at 8 P.M. at the R. R. Station. Peter Fanella, 12 years old, 411 Catherine Street. Location: Utica, New York (State)

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New York, New York. Martinetti grandchild and her aunt at the Christmas tree. The pin indicates that her uncle is in the United States Army

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Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fala and Ruthie Bie at Hill Top Cottage in Hyde Park, N.Y. The better of two extant photos of FDR in a wheel chair.

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almost 8 years